Material Design for Contact Form 7 <= 2.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Settings Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2022-0404
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published March 11, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Material Design for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin through 2.6.4 does not check authorization or that the option mentioned in the notice param belongs to the plugin when processing requests to the cf7md_dismiss_notice action, allowing any logged in user (with roles as low as Subscriber) to set arbitrary options to true, potentially leading to Denial of Service by breaking the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug material-design-for-contact-form-7 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.4
Patched Version
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